Platform Product Owner
Lightsource bp
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own and continuously evolve the strategic roadmap for the IFS platform, reflecting the business’s objectives, priorities, and evolving needs.
- Act as the delivery focused liaison for key business units, engaging stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, facilitate cross-department prioritisation, and lead business forums focused on aligning priorities, roadmap progress, and delivery performance.
- Communicate delivery plans, progress, and changes transparently across all stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive consistent realisation of business value.
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, technical feasibility, and stakeholder expectations.
- Oversee business readiness for deployments, coordinating with change management, communications, and training teams to maximise adoption and benefits realisation.
- Champion agile delivery principles, ensuring well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and defect resolution processes.
- Facilitate continuous improvement feedback loops between business users and the technical team to enhance platform value and usability.
- Ensure platform compliance with security, data privacy, and enterprise governance standards, mitigating risks associated with knowledge sharing and retention.
- Define KPIs, track platform performance, monitor feature adoption, and iterate on the product based on quantitative and qualitative data.
- Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (planning, refinement, demo, and retrospectives), providing clarity on user stories and acceptance criteria to development teams.
- Partner closely with the Technical Lead and delivery teams to ensure technical and business alignment, balancing feasibility, capacity, and strategic value.
- Monitor market and internal trends to anticipate shifts in business priorities and incorporate them into the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or Platform Owner in complex enterprise IT environments, delivering scalable and high-impact solutions.
- Strong business stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to build consensus and align diverse cross-functional teams around a common vision and objectives.
- Expertise in strategic planning, and product roadmap development, ensuring initiatives align with organisational goals and deliver measurable business value.
- Proficient with industry-standard tools such as ServiceNow, Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), Azure DevOps (ADO), or equivalent product and portfolio management platforms.
- Deep Agile methodology expertise, including backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, iterative delivery, user story creation, and continuous stakeholder engagement.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills, capable of facilitating effective dialogue between technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Strong decision-making ability, balancing competing priorities and leveraging data-driven insights to guide product and platform strategy under tight deadlines.
- Exposure to asset management platforms, preferably IFS or comparable enterprise systems, is highly desirable for integrating and optimising platform capabilities.
- Proactive mindset with a customer-focused approach, continuously seeking process improvements and innovative solutions to enhance platform performance and user satisfaction.
- Previous Business Analyst experience an advantage
Benefits
- annual bonus
- retention bank
- health insurance
- pension and other local benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product roadmap developmentbacklog prioritisationuser story creationKPI definitionfeature adoption monitoringdata-driven decision makingAgile methodologysprint planningiterative deliverydefect resolution processes
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationcollaborationnegotiationdecision-makingcustomer-focused approachfacilitationcross-functional team alignmentprocess improvementproactive mindset